Medicine and dogmatism in "Neguijon" by Fernando Iwasaki

This article examines how in the novel Neguijon of the Peruvian writer Fernando Iwasaki, medicine serves as an epistemological symbol through which a skeptical conception of knowledge is expressed. The basically speculative and even reflexive quality of medicine from the 16th and 17th centuries woul...

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Autor: Castany Prado, Bernat
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:Perú
Institución:Academia Peruana de la Lengua
Repositorio:Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.revistas.apl.org.pe:article/96
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.apl.org.pe/index.php/boletinapl/article/view/96
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Philosophy and literature
Epistemology
Skepticism
Fernando Iwasaki
epistemological Methapor
Filosofía y literatura
Epistemología
Escepticismo
Metáfora epistemológica
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Sumario:This article examines how in the novel Neguijon of the Peruvian writer Fernando Iwasaki, medicine serves as an epistemological symbol through which a skeptical conception of knowledge is expressed. The basically speculative and even reflexive quality of medicine from the 16th and 17th centuries would be both a metaphor of dogmatism which dominated the Spanish and Hispano-American societies from the Counter-Reformation, as well as the dogmatism that tempts humans at any time and place.